Saturday, July 14, 2012

Weeks 6-2--6-8 thru 7-7--7-13-12 - From Spring to Fire Season in Montana and Idaho

Week 6-2--6-8-12 - Clayton, ID and Butte, MT:

 A honeybee lands on poppies with the Lemhi Range beyond



 Home on the Range, antelope and all

 Humbug Spires at sundown


More snow in June, Butte MT

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Week 6-9--6-15-12 - Clayton, ID and Butte, MT:

 Arrowleaf balsamroots galore outside Clayton, ID

 Elk in the Lemhi Range

 Big Hole Valley, MT


 Along the Jefferson River, MT

 One of many aspen stands in decline in the West due to lack of fire and disturbance on the landscape



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Week 6-16--6-22-12 - Yellowstone NP, WY and Butte, MT:


 Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone, WY



 Yellowstone Lake

 Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

 Pony, MT

A woodpecker peaks out in a forest that was burned the next week in a wildfire 

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Week 6-23--6-29-12 - Deerlodge and Butte, MT:


 Lake at the base of Mt Powell

 Alpine flowers above tree line on Mt Powell

Five of eight lakes visible from the Mt Powell summit, 10,168 ft

 An abandoned root cellar

 The front range of MT


Elk cows and calves near Augusta, MT 

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Week 6-30--7-6-12 - Choteau, MT, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, and Butte, MT:


 Bear paw, a flower that thrives in disturbed area like this scorched lodgepole forest


June columbines atop Mt Wright in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, 8,875ft with one of the best 360 views in the Northern Rockies




 Corrall Fire, on the edge of Montana's capital Helena

 Sap drips from a scorched ponderosa pine and beads on the ground below

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Week 7-7--7-13-12 - Bitterroot Range and Butte, MT:


 A wildfire (left) and a thunderstorm (right) seen from atop Trapper Peak, tallest mountain in the Bitterroots at 10,157ft


 Pig cloud (left) climbing the mountains outside Dillon, MT

 Douglas fir beetle galleries with little white larvae thriving inside



Kosher gospel at the Montana Folk Festival, Butte MT

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